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The annual Balatonfured Yacht Club (BYC) Cup took place from 8-10 September on Lake Balaton, Hungary.

Held from 5-10 September 2017 at the Tekirdag Sailing Club on the Marmara Sea, the 50^th Balkan Sailing Championships featured 420 teams from host nation Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece.

The 2017 470 Junior World Championships, hosted at Enoshima, Japan from 26 August-2 September was packed with former 420 Class talent.

Hosted at Tihany Yacht Club from 28-31 August, nineteen of Hungary’s top 420 teams contested a 10 race National Championship series on Lake Balaton, featuring sailors from 8 clubs around the country.

Forty 420 teams raced the 54 Gran Dia de la Vela Bufete Frau at Club Nautic Arenal on the Spanish island of Mallroca from 24-27 August 2017.

The wind refused to come to the race track at the 2017 Austrian Youth Championship hosted at the Yacht Club Breitenbrunn, despite the pleads from the 172 sailors competing across the different classes.
 

What a week the 420s had at the Sailingfast sponsored Scottish Open and National Championships!

Following on from the first 420 Coaches and Sailors Clinic in Canada, teams got to transfer their new skills straight to the race track at the CORK International Regatta, 13-17 August at Porstmouth Olympic Harbour.

Following on from their win at the Irish Pathway Championship in April 2017, Geoff Power/James McCann wrapped up victory at the 2017 420 Munster Championship at Waterford Harbour Sailing Club, 19-20 August 2017.

A stunning 25 knots of breeze greeted the 470 Men and Women fleets contesting the final race 11. Some of the best conditions of the Championship, as the breeze bounced off the cliffs in the north east corner of the lake.